Sunday Services: Orthros 9:00am / Divine Liturgy 10:00am
Saturday - March 7 - 9:00AM
Divine Liturgy & Memorial for the Saturday of Souls
(Orthros at 8am)
Weekday Worship Schedule for Lent 2020
Mondays - 6:00pm
Great Compline**
Wednesdays – 6:00pm
Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
Fridays - 7:00pm
Salutations to the Theotokos
Sunday – March 8
Sunday of Orthodoxy
Icon Procession following Divine Liturgy
Complete Lent & Holy Week Schedule
Philoptochos
Membership: business meeting following Divine Liturgy this Sunday.
New Video: ‘Come Join Us’ is a new video from the national Philoptochos. View it here
**Special Presanctified Liturgy
Instead of Great Compline there will be a Presanctified Liturgy on Monday, March 9. There will also be one on Wednesday as usual.
Time Change
Spring clocks ahead this Saturday night one hour!
Flower Donation Opportunities for Lent and Pascha
Hellenic Club
The March Hellenic Club outing will be held on Saturday, March 28th at 6 p.m. at Luigi’s, 3301 Brambleton Avenue. Please RSVP your attendance by Tuesday, March 24 to Frances Simopoulos at 434.851.6830 or by email
From Metropolitan Evangelos: Encyclical for the Sunday of Orthodoxy
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Save the Date: Roanoke Greek Festival September 18-20, 2020
Welcome to All Visitors!
Please join us for fellowship in the Church Hall immediately following the Divine Liturgy. For those visiting an Orthodox Church for the first time, please be aware that Holy Communion is a sign of unity of faith, which is only offered to Baptized and Chrismated Orthodox Christians. All present are welcomed to come forward and receive the antidoron (or blessed bread) which is distributed at the end of the service. For those interested in learning more about the Orthodox Christian faith, please feel free to speak with Fr. Nick after the service.
Prayers and Offerings
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Prokeimenon. Plagal Fourth Mode. Psalm 75.11,1.
Make your vows to the Lord our God and perform them.
Verse: God is known in Judah; his name is great in Israel.
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans 13:11-14; 14:1-4.
Brethren, salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed; the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
As for the man who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not for disputes over opinions. One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him who abstains, and let not him who abstains pass judgment on him who eats; for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for God is able to make him stand.
Forgiveness Sunday
The Reading is from Matthew 6:14-21
The Lord said, "If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
"And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."